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Decades
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1590s
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Centuries
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Events
March 4
-
Massachusetts Bay Colony
is granted a
Royal charter
.
June 4
: The
VOC ship Batavia
runs aground west of Australia.
March 10
-
Charles I of England
dissolves
Parliament
starting the
Eleven Years Tyranny
in which there was no parliament.
End of the reign of
Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan
Empress Meisho
ascends to the throne of
Japan
Births
March 9
- Tsar
Aleksey I of Russia
April 14
-
Christiaan Huygens
, Dutch scientist
August 17
-
John III Sobieski
, king of Poland
Roderick O Flaherty
, Irish chieftan, historian
Deaths
Abbas I
, Shah of
Persia
(possibly deceased in
1628
).
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